Chapter 56: The Misunderstanding is Completely Cleared Up
With her blindfold removed, Nan Jiao blinked uncomfortably and saw Feng Ran next to her, who also looked terrified.
She and Feng Ran were tied up and thrown onto the deck, with the rolling waves in front of them.
"Mmm..." Feng Ran was very excited when she saw her, but her mouth was taped shut and she couldn't make a sound.
"What a nuisance." The male, dressed entirely in black, walked over and ripped the tape off Feng Ran's mouth.
Feng Ran glared at him angrily: "Who are you? Why did you kidnap me here? Do you know who I am? Do you believe me...?"
"I know who you are, a princess, but even the queen can't control us. We only care about money, not people. After we finish this job, we'll run off to another planet. You can only blame your bad luck."
Feng Ran then looked at Nan Jiao, her eyes filled with suspicion: "Did you do this?"
Countless angst-filled novels flashed through her mind.
"You deliberately tied me up here just to harm me, or to force Lu Xiao to make a choice? Is this childish game interesting?" She looked like she had already seen through it all.
Nan Jiao opened her mouth slightly, her lips dry from not having drunk water for a long time:
"What you said... are all my words."
Feng Ran's eyes flickered, and she suddenly realized that Nan Jiao wasn't that kind of person. Although the original book described Nan Jiao as reckless and utterly wicked, she only discovered after transmigrating into the story that Nan Jiao actually had no bad intentions, and could even be described as somewhat naive, a complete foolish beauty.
Feng Ran turned her head away again, her voice sounding somewhat unnatural: "How is Yan Yan?"
Nan Jiao glanced at her, her gaze deep: "Don't you think it's too late to say all this now? Why didn't you consider him back then? He was just a four-year-old child. You shouldn't have laid a hand on him."
Feng Ran lowered her head and said nothing more.
"What are you arguing about?" the man in black roared. "Stop talking nonsense and save your energy. Maybe you can swim a little longer once you get to the sea. Hahaha, if you swim too slowly, you'll be shark food."
A moment later, footsteps sounded again, and the hunched figure took off his hood, revealing a face that surprised and looked familiar to Nan Jiao.
Nan Jiao barely recognized Qiu Lian as the person in front of her, because she had changed so much.
I remember when I first met her, she was so elegant and composed. But now she looks like she's aged twenty years. Her hair is gray and her cheeks are as dry as tree bark.
Feng Ran gritted her teeth: "Are you a human or a ghost?"
Qiu Lian let out a sinister laugh: "Am I a human or a ghost? I'm a ghost here to take your lives!"
Feng Ran recognized her voice: "Qiu Lian, it's actually you..."
"Yes, that's me. I've been having a really tough time lately, but you guys are living the high life!"
Nan Jiao organized her thoughts: "Madam Qiu, why did you do this? What is your purpose?"
Qiu Lian laughed out loud: "What's the purpose? I want that ingrate Lu Xiao to get his comeuppance! He deserves it! He's a beast! How dare he retaliate against me like that..." Qiu Lian's voice changed with hatred: "He wants to destroy my family! The family that our Qiu family has built up over generations! Why! Why won't he let me go!"
She knelt down with a thud, kowtowing in several directions, crying out that she had failed her mother's expectations and the ancestors of the Qiu family.
Suddenly, he burst into maniacal laughter: "I regret it now, I really regret it—"
"I should have watched him die with my own eyes! That vengeful ghost, that jinx! If I had known this would happen, I should have poisoned him back then. How could that debt collector have such a long life! Looking back, it was definitely the right thing to do to strangle him!"
Upon hearing her words, a hint of disgust flashed deep in Nan Jiao's eyes.
Feng Ran couldn't help but speak up: "If you have a grudge against Lu Xiao, go and arrest him. Why are you bothering us?"
The barrage of comments flashed by rapidly, as if my entire worldview had been shaken:
[How could you say that, heroine? Aren't you and the male lead truly in love?]
[This isn't right, something feels off. Has even the characters in this novel started to fall apart?]
[Luckily, I ship an unconventional couple.]
I hereby declare that I will now also be involved in superstitious practices.
...
Qiu Lian suddenly got up from the ground and regained her usual calm and composed demeanor:
"What's the point of just watching him die? I want him to experience what it feels like to lose the most important thing..."
Feng Ran corrected her: "Your thinking is wrong. If you really hate him, you should stab him a couple of times. Physical pain is much greater than mental pain."
Qiu Lian glared at her, then said, "Who is the most important person to him? I will choose one and throw him down to let him experience true heartbreak."
Feng Ran was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then said, "Of course it's Nan Jiao. The two of them are inseparable every day. You can tell at a glance that they are a match made in heaven."
She didn't want to die. The system's protection had disappeared, and if she were thrown into the water to feed the sharks now, she would never wake up again.
She could still distinguish between dying herself and dying as a fictional character.
She hid her reluctance and repeatedly told herself that the other person was just a two-dimensional character, a character in a book, and that if she really died, she would disappear.
Nan Jiao was amused by her and retorted, her words a mix of truth and falsehood: "You and Lu Xiao have no relationship? Everyone on the First Star knows that your relationship is special. You are his white moonlight, and you used to wear the same amulet as him. That was your token of love, which you sewed for him, and he cherished it!"
Feng Ran opened her eyes wide and glared at Nan Jiao. Under the threat of death, she couldn't care about anything else.
If you fail a mission, you can continue, but if you lose your life, you lose everything.
"No! Don't talk nonsense. The amulet he's wearing has nothing to do with me. I just happened to... choose the same one as him. I threw that amulet away a long time ago. If you don't believe me, come and search."
"Did you do that on purpose? Did you deliberately make me misunderstand?"
Feng Ran nodded slowly.
Nan Jiao's eyes flickered slightly, not expecting Feng Ran to reveal the truth under these circumstances.
A thought struck her, and she continued to provoke him:
"You are Lu Xiao's white moonlight. He has been infatuated with you for many years. He was only with me for the sake of having children. He only has you in his heart. You were already ambiguous with him when you were at the first star. You two had sex seven times a night."
Nan Jiao repeated what the comments had said.
Feng Ran stared wide-eyed in shock: "You're just spreading rumors! You actually made up all this and pinned it on me just to survive?! I barely speak a few words to Lu Xiao in a year, how could this be... Where did you get this story from? You'll do anything to survive, Nan Jiao."
How can you prove you're not lying?
Feng Ran was speechless: "How can I prove something I didn't do? How can I prove something you made up yourself?"
Nan Jiao carefully observed her expression and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she was not lying.
It turns out he really didn't do it...
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